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No More People Pleasing

No More People Pleasing

I am by nature, the world's biggest people pleaser. The People Pleasers People Pleaser. I say yes, when I want to say no, I try to keep others happy before myself, including BTW strangers and clerks in stores that kind of thing. It was/is pretty bad. I want to tell...

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Thought Fitness

Thought Fitness

Thoughts When we think of fitness and wellbeing, many, if not all of us think of taking care of our bodies, right? What we eat, drink, and how much we move our bodies. We go to gyms, count calories, and drink water to stay hydrated, we pay attention to our bodies and...

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Start Living: Try Something New

Start Living: Try Something New

"Whose dumb idea was this anyway"?, I grumble to myself as I head out the door to my first Orange Theory Fitness Class! I briefly considered blaming it on my baby sister who had suggested it, but even in my nervous state, I laughed at myself at the absurdity of such a...

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About Me

      “To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - that is to have succeeded” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson   When...

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Once Upon a Time……

Once Upon a Time……

Once upon a time a long time ago, I was a young, young Mom with two little girls and far away from home in a foreign country and married to a beast of a man. He had a terribly violent temper and was abusive in every way imaginable, he controlled all the money, the...

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Our Island

Our Island

In the middle of a lake, in the middle of Nova Scotia stands an Island, and you know what? She is our Island! Yep, my husband and I own an island and I have to say she is spectacular. Majestic, beautiful, soft, light, gentle, and innocent. She sits there, day in and...

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Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving

  Our Island Gratitude. What does that mean to you? It is not a platitude of giving thanks at Thanksgiving, with the turkey and cranberries, or saying thanks for a lovely gift at least for me that is not gratitude. For me, it is an attitude of gratitude it is a...

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The Load

The Load

" It's too much of a load," said my client. " I have too much on my plate," said another client. " It feels really heavy," said yet another client. All around me with my clients, others, and myself things feel heavy. The Pandemic lingers on, comes back, never leaves,...

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Coaching Packages

WELCOME To Start Living Coaching with Coach Susy Giddy!     YOU ARE A HIGH ACHIEVING PERSONYou are a high-achieving, hard-working, motivated compassionate, caring person. Maybe you are a professional, a lawyer, a professor, a business owner, an executive…You...

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Come On Deputy

Come On Deputy

"Come on Deputy", I say to my beloved dog Ruffus, " Please Don't Eat the Daisies". This sends me bursting into giggles, all alone on the top of our mountain, because after all who would want to eat daisies and who calls their dog "Deputy" when their dog's name is...

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The Power of Love

The Power of Love

When I wake up tomorrow, It will be one year since the dreadful day that we took our most beloved kitty cat Emmy to his one way trip to the vet. The time had come. He was 19 years old, born New Year's Day 2001, gray and fuzzy and character all the days of his life. He...

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A Bientot Robert, merci.

A Bientot Robert, merci.

Huh, I thought as I got back into my car after loading my groceries into the trunk. Many of you will know that I love doing the groceries each week and for the past 15 months since the pandemic began, the trip to the grocery store has been, my only trip of the week,...

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